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The dealer fighting a three-year prison sentence for causing a €4.9 billion trading loss is planning to sue his former employer for alleged forgery and manipulation of evidence.

It is the second time in a month that Jérôme Kerviel has moved to take legal action against Société Générale, which immediately dismissed his claims as an effort to build “a media buzz”.

Kerviel, who has been sentenced to serve time in jail for his role in France’s biggest rogue trading scandal in 2008, alleged yesterday that SocGen had tampered with audio recordings used at his trial.